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A portion of land outside mosque was given to Temple Trust
The masjid committee got 100 sq ft land in exchange
Varanasi: A portion of the land outside the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi was handed over to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust in exchange for another piece of land.
The committee governing the mosque gave away 1,700 square feet of land to the Temple Trust. In return, it got land measuring 1,000 sq feet of the same value.
“Both the plots are equal in value,” Sunil Verma, Chief Executive Officer of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust was quoted as saying by PTI.
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Gyanvapi Masjid Moves Allahabad HC Against Planned ASI Survey, Calls it Arbitrary
The petitioner has said that the Varanasi civil court judge while ordering a survey of the mosque on April 8 had acted in the most arbitrary manner against judicial discipline .
Gyanvapi mosque. Photo: Kabir Agarwal/The Wire
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New Delhi: The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Varanasi, representing Gyanvapi Masjid, has moved an urgent application before the Allahabad high court to stay the April 8 order of Varanasi civil court directing the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) to carry out a survey of Gyanvapi Masjid located adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple, according to
Varanasi: A petitioner in the Gyanvapi mosque case on behalf of Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar, Harihar Pandey received a life threat on his phone on April 8 soon after a local court pronounced the verdict directing the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct an archaeological survey of the Gyanvapi compound to ascertain if a temple existed at the spot earlier.
Pandey informed that he received a phone call from an unknown number in the evening on the day of the verdict in favour of the petitioners. The caller threatened Pandey that he would be killed. Pandey called senior police officials and intimated them about the threat verbally following which ACP Awadhesh Pandey met him and collected all the details. The ACP said that the phone number is being traced and investigation is on.